Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-02
ParneIl Delivers a Great Speech in tn
House of Commons.

Parneu Delivers u Great SpeeCh IN the
House of Commons.
LONDON April 1st-The whips of both
parties in the House of Commons are do
| ing their utmost to secure full attend
ance at to-night's session. It is not known
positively whether Parnell will move the
amendment of which he has given notice.
The Gladstone Liberals will meet the Gov
ernment's motion for second reading of
! the Irish Crimes Act amendment bill with
hostile amendment. The form which
this shall take has not yet been decided
upon.
SMITH URGES THE LAND BILL.
LONDON, April 1sS.-In the House of
! Commons tonight w. H. Smith, First
Lord of the Treasury. suggested that if the
| Irish crimes bill be read the first time to-
night the second reading could be taken up
on Tuesday Then there would be an
interval of a week between the second
reading and going into committee. 1t was
the imperative duty of the Government to
insist that the House come to an early de-
cision on the principles of the BILL Re-
ferring to the land bill, he said it is of vital
Importance that the Government use every
effort to make the measure law.
PARNELL DISCUSSES THE COERCION BILL.
Parnell resumed the debate on the coer-
cion bill He was loudly cheered on rising.
He said that with the production of the land
bill yesterday Parliament had been put in
possession of the complete plan of the Gov
ernment, in all its nakedness and dishon-
esty. The land bill revealed the extent of
the plot and the gravity of the conspiracy
through which the Conservatives and Lib
eral Unionists intend to try to coerce ten
ants in Ireland into the payment of impos-
sible rents-to compel them to purchase
their Landlords interests at exorbitant
rates. If the House should ever give the
Government power to thus coerce the peo-
pie the result would most certainly be
wholesale reputation, involving i'm
mense loss to the British taxpayers
[Hear.l The Government were pressing
coercion with indecent haste. They re-
fused TO carry out the recommendations of
the~Land Commission. If the coercion bill
passed, the last defense of the tenants
against wholesale robbery would be re-
moved. In justlyregulated land purchase
lay the only hope of settling the land
question. If done at a fair price, and in
the absence of coercion, the Irish tenants
would fulfill their obligations to
the last penny. He went on
to complain of the absence of official
information concerning crime in Ireland.
| The Government had given them the
opinions of four Judges who thought that
crime was seriously increasing. He could
quote twelve Judges to show the absence
of serious crime. As to the alleged failures
OF juries to convict, the cases have been
grossly exaggerated. They were utterly
| insufficient grounds for destroying the
| liberties of Ireland. The National League
had been called tyrannic, but was there
proof that any pressure had been put or
To- fn,v, IL = Sc
national body the outcome of genuine
popular feeling, and no branch of the
League had ever been known to exercise
force in order TO impress members.
Proceeding to discuss the provisions of
the bill, Parnell contended that the powers
given magistrates would eaable them to
send political opponents TO prison for six
months-to a plank bed aud prison diet.
No part of previous coercion Acts ever so
much excited the distrust of English JUS
tices as the proposal TO change the venue of
trials by trying Irishmen before special
English juries The proposal meant reign
of judicial murder. Ii meant that all hopes
of the better times which seemed dawn
ing upon Ireland would disappear; that the
| system of su6ordination would witness
wholesale perjury before partisan juries
1t would result in sending innocent persons
to the scaffold and to the convict's cell.
What was the only state of society that
could arise under this reign of terror?
Secret societies would spring up, fos-
tered by the suferings of an op-
pressed nation, and those who had been
persistent in counseling the people to
observe patience and moderation might
counsel in vain. But he would still coun-
sci them to submit to injustice rather than
retaliate or do anything that might drive
Gladstone from their side or increase his
difficulties, or place him in false posi-
| ton with the Liberals. The battle was
now won in Ireland. TCheers.1 There might
be some suffering and much tyranny
| yet TO be endured, but they would be as
nothing compared with that which the
people had gone through in the past. A
little waiting, and the urgency proposed
for this bill would disappear before that
brighter time when Gladstone would be
able to appeal once more to the sense of
| justice of the people of Great Britain, and
receive full power to do right by Ire
land [Cheers.l The party which alone
could gain by violence, by the people
of Ireland going beyond the law,
was the present Government. That
was the reason this bill had been
brought forward. Its object was to
strengthen the Governments own miser-
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land fall into the tolls thus set for them.
He greatly feared the results of the bill,
but he would not cease to tell them that
the situation is entirely different from that
of five years ago, and that it is for them a
victory certain. The people of Ireland
would again bear the strain with patience.
| Gladstone would not find his action ham,
pered, nor his hands sullied in the great
and glorious work he had undertaken.
| [Cheers.l
He concluded by moving that the House
resolve itself into committee to consider
the state of Ireland.
| Harrington, amid great laughter, read
letters from the Knight OF Kerry, Lord
Monek and others, applying, on behalf of
| their friends and relatives, for stipendiary
magistrateship in Ireland. When asked
where he obtained the letters, he replied
that he bought them at auction. This an
swer was received with shouts of laughter.
Harrington proceeded to explain the prin-
} cipal qualifications urged on behalf OF the
( applicants as being poverty and large fam
| lilies.
On being interrupted by cries of 'Diyide"
| the speaker said he was not surprised at
the impatience shown by gentlemen on the
outside upon the exposure of these unpal-
atable facts, but he had a right to show the
characters of the men at whose mercy it
was proposed to place the liberties of Irish
men,
O'Connor moved to adjourn the debate.
Gladstone, in supporting the motion,
said there were strong reasons for it. He
defended Parnelfs delay in moving his
amendment, and said that this was grave,
serious case, demanding another night of
discussion. With reference to Parnell's s
speech, Gladstone seid he had never known
of an instance in which the case made bv
such bill had been so completely torn to
rags. [Cheers.l
254.
GREAys EFFORT.
Parnells speech, which was one of the
best that he ever made, was unusually
fiery in its peroration. Gladstone and the
whole opposition consider Balfours case
pulyerized by the speech.
READ WITHOUT DIVISION.